Biography of Leonid Telyatnikov

The building of the power unit was destroyed, a large number of radioactive materials were released, and a strong fire began. Разрушенный взрывом 4-й энергоблок Чернобыльской АЭС. Reference: Telyatnikov Leonid Petrovich - Soviet fireman. Hero of the Soviet Union. Leonid Petrovich was born on January 25 of the year in the village of Videnka of the Kustanai region now the Republic of Kazakhstan.

At the end of the school, he worked as an electrician at an auto -repairing plant. He studied perfectly, had a boxing category was a winner in the school championship and fire and applied sports. Subsequently, he graduated from the Higher Engineering Fire and Technical School in Moscow. Hero of the Soviet Union Fireman Leonid Teyatnikov. After graduating from the Institute of Teachers, he began the inspector of the fire department of the Rudnensky City Executive Committee.

From the year he held the position of head of the state paramilitary fire department of the internal affairs department of the Kustanai city executive committee. On the night of April 26, when an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Major Telyatnikov was on vacation, but in a matter of minutes he gathered and rushed to the place of disaster.

Under his personal guidance, reconnaissance and extinguishing of a fire were organized. The fourth power unit has developed an extremely complex situation that threatened the safety of the entire nuclear power plant. The explosion was completely destroyed by the active zone of the reactor, as well as the building of the reactor hall. Hot water was always in Pripyat, but the cold was given only late in the evening.

When they heard the explosions, they did not attach any importance to this. The flight regiment was based nearby, and very often the planes “took” the sound barrier over the Pripyat: at low altitude it was quite noticeable. But after three minutes a bell rang: they said that the roof of the engine room of the nuclear power plant was burning. Levik went to put on shape, I ran after his boots.

Since the husband was then on vacation, he could not call the driver. The whole guard was already in a fire, so I had to call a police car. He arrived at the station 15 minutes after the explosion. Usually, leaving for a call, he said: “Larison, goodbye,” and for some reason that day said: “Goodbye! The roof of the machine room and the territory around were dotted with radioactive graphite blocks.

Of the total number of nuclear fuel weighing in tons, a ton was thrown into the environment. In the context of the monstrous level of radiation, firefighters managed to localize combustion and prevent the spread of fire to neighboring power units of the nuclear power plant. Larisa Telyatnikova: - When they say that the firefighters saved Europe, this is not just a beautiful phrase.

After all, there were four nuclear reactors with fuel, loaded rods ... If there were a chain reaction and a nuclear explosion, indeed, Europe would not have become. The guys understood what was fraught with work in the increased radiation zone, but, nevertheless, the fire was localized. The catastrophe of a planetary scale was prevented, but the price of victory was very high.

At the cost of their life, firefighters prevented a radiation catastrophe of a planetary scale. He received a huge dose of irradiation, and their commander Leonid Telyatnikov. But he miraculously survived, perhaps heroic health helped.

In the morning, the ambulance drove away from the station one after another. It was scary to look at the people who were taken out of there: swollen thyroid gland, red faces. Some laughed without ceasing - one of the signs of strong irradiation, like vomiting. All firefighters received fatal doses of irradiation and were sent for treatment to Moscow by aircraft. In Japan, radiation disease is diagnosed already at a dose of 50 BAER, 25 beads are considered safe, while the calfs received Baer.

The effects of toxic aerosols and hard metals were added to rigid irradiation. The liquidator was burned by the respiratory tract and the lungs, his teeth staggering. In June, doctors could not guarantee that he would live. Back in May, for several days, four colleagues of Telyatnikov died in terrible torment. Doctors took him for no more than three years, and Leonid, after the accident, lived in the year Leonid Teyatnikov joined the Soviet delegation in the UK at the reception of Margaret Thatcher.

The Prime Minister said that after the Chernobyl disaster, her country suffered serious losses, many sheep died. Leonid allowed himself to notice that in a situation when people die, talking about sheep is not entirely correct. Then such bustling during the official meeting was considered a terrible seditious. At the same reception, he pinned the tin icon, made specifically for the letnut of his fire department, the prime minister wore the icon all evening on the lapel of the jacket, Margaret Tatcher.

After the treatment of the calfs, he did not touch alcohol, and according to the protocol, everyone had to drink champagne. And when he refused, the “Iron Lady” said: “Then I will also drink tea with Leonid! In one of the pictures it was written: “A real man and a brave man” and was the signature of Margaret Thatcher. Leonid Telyatnikov and Margaret Thatcher.After the long-term treatment in Moscow clinics, Leonid Petrovich continued the service in the fire protection of the USSR, was the head of the sector of the test fire laboratory, and for the year he held the position of deputy head of the regulatory and technical department of the fire security department of the Kyiv Oblast Executive Committee.

But diseases that arose as a result of radiation irradiation undermined health and in the year the Major General of the internal service Leonid Telyatnikov resigned. In the year, he headed the voluntary fire society of the city of Kyiv. He was the founder of the Kyiv children's movement "Young Fireman". Leonid Telyatnikov himself did not give interviews and did not write memories.

But until the end of his life he suffered due to the fact that his subordinates died, and he survived. He died hard. He could not swallow, he spoke with difficulty, and his face corroded one of the varieties of papilloma - a consequence of acute radiation illness. His death on December 2, at the age of 53, remained unnoticed - the "orange" revolution was performed in the country. He was buried in a Baykov cemetery in the city of Kyiv.

A monument on the grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union L. We will always remember the feat of firefighters Chernobyl, who at the cost of our own life prevented the global radiation disaster in the spring. You can learn more about the events of that time and the fate of their participants on the VDPO portal. Read more about the causes of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the course of its elimination and fate of heroes-orientations, during the virtual tour of the halls of the Virtual Museum of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, which was developed by order of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia as part of the joint activity program to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster as part of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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